Humor: Conversion Units

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From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 14:30:16 PST 

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From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Humor: Conversion Units

>"Conversion Units"
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>For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the
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>constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units,
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>here are some useful English system conversions:
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>Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
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>2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
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>1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
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>Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1
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>bananosecond
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>Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
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>365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
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>1 lite year
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>16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
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>Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
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>1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
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>Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
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>Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about
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>it for a moment)
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>453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
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>1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone
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>1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
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>365.25 days: 1 unicycle
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>2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
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>10 cards: 1 decacards
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>1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
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>1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
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>1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
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>10 rations: 1 decoration
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>100 rations: 1 C-ration
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>2 monograms: 1 diagram
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>8 nickels: 2 paradigms
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>2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
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>Hospital: 1 I.V. League
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>1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
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>Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-
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>furlong 

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